"In all ages we have had artists and orators; people who held the "sacred fire" as their inheritance among men an inheritance more powerful than gold, or wonderful jewels, or landed estates."
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Helen Potter
Helen Potter was a performer, platform reader, and impersonator active in the Chautauqua movement during the 1870s and 1880s. Her impersonations included Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln, and Oscar Wilde.
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